Kennedy Center Honors Celebrity Fundraising

Tonight CBS will telecast the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors, a 90 minute video distillation that will seem every bit as long as the 3 hour live event held earlier this month. Video broadcast rights to the ceremony probably earn the Center as much as a middling college team gets for a third-rate football bowl game telecast. Frankly, a Bake Sale for the Arts would be more interesting to watch.

“It takes ingenuity to make the Kennedy Center Honors more mortifying with each passing year,” observed Frank Rich:

Kennedy Centers Honors Celebrity Fundraising Opportunity

Tonight CBS will telecast the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors, a 90 minute video distillation that will seem every bit as long as the 3 hour live event held earlier this month. Video rights probably earn the Center as much as a middling college gets from a second-rate football bowl game broadcast. Frankly, a Bake Sale for the Arts would be more interesting.